Jade

Jade is a quiet, Swiss-leaning portfolio for a creative director who would rather show work than talk about it. The opening screen is almost all white space: a name and the title Creative Director set large in black Inter Tight on the right half of the page, a short two-line intro beneath, and a lone "Welcome:" label in the bottom left corner. The navigation is a single line of text, Work, Info, Contact, written with commas like a sentence, opposite the name in the top left. There are no buttons or colors to speak of.

Slate Dept. then hands the homepage over to the projects. Each case study is a full-width, edge-to-edge image, mostly dark, like a poster on a raw concrete wall, a tote bag on cobblestones, or letterpress type embossed into textured paper. The project name, its disciplines, and the year sit in small white text along the bottom of each image. After the last project comes a simple footer with email, phone, links to the style guide and licenses, and a Download Resume link, then a huge copyright year in black spanning the page. The Work page lists the disciplines as a large filter line, with All in black and the rest in gray, above a three-column grid of project images with plain captions.

On a phone, the name and title stay large over the intro, the menu line stays at the top, and the first project image follows with its caption on top.

We'd pick Jade for art directors, brand designers, and photographers with a strong, consistent visual archive. It has almost no personality of its own, so weak or mismatched images will show at once. We'd also check the Info page if you need room for a longer biography or a list of services.